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" filver-bars He piled up in heaps in the open flreets day and night, without 

 " guard, for five or fix months together, waiting the arrival of the armada ; 

 *' which when arrived in Puerto Bello, they tranfport it thither with fo flen- 

 " der a guard for fo great a treafure, that it would be an eafy prey for a' 

 " thoufand refolute men, the expence of v/hofe expedition would be . fmall 

 *' in comparifon of the prize. But there is no refting, or long-tarrying about 

 the bujinefs, the .S/^/z.vWj- being numerous iiere, as in all other places of 

 ** the main-land : although they are of great wealth, ic might eafily be 

 " gotten with a catch and away. 



" This ifiand of Cuba hath, adjacent to it, great conveniences of fdt and 

 fidiing ; and in it is very great plenty of horfcs, neat, fhccp, and hogs 

 both wild and tame, of a far larger and better 'breed than in ocher pal-t of 

 " America. It hath alfb many very rich mines of copper already open; and 

 *' is the only place that fupplies all the Weji-Indies with metal for the infinite 

 " number of ordnance they have in all their ports and caftles, both in the 

 *' north and fouth feas ; but whether it hath any mines of filver or gold," I 

 '* knov/ .not: but if there were any fuch, they would not adventure 'their 

 *' opening and difcovery, fearing the invafion of that ifiand, which is of fo 

 ** eafy accefs by fea, and of fuch great importance to their whole interefi: in 

 *' America : for which reafon alfo they refufe to work any mines in Florida^ 

 that are near the north fea, (although they have there very many) bat do 

 " rather employ thernfelvcs about others farther up in the country, although 

 ** with great labour and cofi:, for conveyance of the produce by land to' 

 *« Mexico. 



*• Laftly, this ifiand (to compleat its praifc) hath many very good ports 

 " and harbours of great advantage to fliips for fafe pafifing the gulf ; and 

 *< fiiould the Spaniards keep two or three frigates always plying off and on 

 «* between the weftern end of Cuba and the Havana, it v/ere impofiible for 



any (hips of ours that came from j^^a/Wr-a: to efcape them. The fcales 

 «' turned would be their cafe to all America. Neither wants it great fugar- 

 " work, which have both water-mills and horfe-mills, and very many large 

 «' cocoa-\N-^Y't. ; the mofi: and befi: tobacco : in (hort, it produces all other 



commodities that any of our American ifiands have knowledge of." 



FINIS. 



